Clear Lake girls sell V-Day candy grams to fight cancer

Maya Roper and Kristina Myers work
on Valentine's Candy Grams for a cancer fund-raiser. Photo
by Trevor Keiser. (click for larger version)

February 19, 2014 - Clear Lake Elementary fourth-graders Kristina Myers and Maya Roper raised more than $200 for the American Childhood Cancer Organization by selling Valentine's candy grams for $1 each last week.

"We feel really proud to be able to raise that much," Roper said.

"We didn't think it was possible (to raise that much)," added Myers. "We thought we would make over $100, but not $200."

The girls came up with the idea after their teacher, Jennifer Trombly, had told the class last month that she was growing her hair out in order to donate it for cancer wigs because she recently had a friend lose all of her hair while fighting breast cancer.